Positive selection of a duplicated UV-sensitive visual pigment coincides with wing pigment evolution in Heliconius butterflies

The butterfly Heliconius erato can see from the UV to the red part of the light spectrum with color vision proven from 440 to 640 nm. Its eye is known to contain three visual pigments, rhodopsins, produced by an 11-cis-3-hydroxyretinal chromophore together with long wavelength (LWRh), blue (BRh) and...

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Autori principali: Briscoe, Adriana D., Bybee, Seth M., Bernard, Gary D., Yuan, Furong, Sison-Mangus, Marilou P., Reed, Robert D., Warren, Andrew D., Llorente-Bousquets, Jorge, Chiao, Chuan-Chin
Natura: Artigo
Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: National Academy of Sciences 2010
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Biological Sciences
Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2840532/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20133601
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0910085107
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